🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead thermal design and analysis for hypersonic air vehicles at a defense tech company. You'll own the full development lifecycle from concept through flight test. This role offers high-impact work on cutting-edge autonomous systems for national security.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Perform thermal design and analysis of unmanned air vehicles at all design maturities
• Define thermal system architectures and material selection strategies
• Conduct transient thermal analysis for time-varying mission profiles
• Plan and execute ground and flight test thermal data analysis

📋 Requirements

• MS or higher in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, or Applied Physics
• 5+ years experience in aerospace thermal engineering on rocket/aircraft/missile programs
• Thermal analysis using CFD (STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Fluent) and/or FEA thermal solvers
• Programming skills in MATLAB, Python, or similar for tool development

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with material response modeling in extreme thermal environments
• Flight test experience including instrumentation design and post-flight analysis
• Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏥 Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost
• 🏖️ Generous PTO with a holiday hiatus in December
• 🧠 Free mental health resources including therapy and life coaching
• 📚 Annual reimbursement for professional development
• 💰 401(k) with Traditional, Roth, and after-tax options

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3Onsite Interview· 4 hours